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Category: Computers & Internet

Blocking AdSense ads on your own site

One of the fears of AdSense users is that they will accidentally click on an ad on their own site and get banned by Google. I’ve always assumed that these fears are a little over-hyped. I just can’t see one accidental click causing you to get dropped. Of course you certainly don’t want to make a habit out of “accidental” clicks.

But there is another reason to not have AdSense ads shown to you on your own sites. By having them visible you can really skew your stats. So what can you do?

GoDaddy and disabled PHP functions

During a support issue with a user of one of my web applications I made a fairly important discovery about GoDaddy.com and how they have PHP installed on their servers. Many functions – 44 last time I looked – are disabled. Now, this may just be with their economy package and they have them enabled on their higher packages as an incentive to upgrade, but it caught me off guard.